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Date:      Sun, 4 Nov 2018 15:47:16 +0000
From:      Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>, Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Filesystems <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How to fill in the fsid for file systems?
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Julian Elischer wrote:
[stuff snipped]
>Rick Macklem wrote:
>>
>> Maybe someone can explain when it would be useful for FFS (or not)?
>SO lets' just make the usage model clear:
>I believe that what Josh needs is to have a  two High availability
>servers viewing a single
>(cloud based) filesystem, export the same FSID so that when one takes
>over for the other
>the clients don't notice.
Well, for UFS/FFS, if it is the same physical storage or the file system wa=
s cloned
via a block for block copy (like using dd(1)), then it shouldn't be a probl=
em,
since the fsid comes out of the superblock.

*** added comment
Oh, and I am not sure what happens w.r.t. the fsid for UFS snapshots?

rick




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